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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Yesterday on Reprographics 101, I put up an “update post” on Stadium Capital’s ownership of ARC stock, and, for some reason I have yet to figure out, the total shares owned by Stadium Capital reported in the last line of the schedule included in yesterday’s post does not equal the total shares owned by Stadium Capital reported by MSN.com finance, one of the web-sites I generally visit for financial research.

Evidently, there are two different Stadium Capital “entities”; one called “Stadium Capital Partners”, the other called “Stadium Capital Management”.The schedule I’ve been updating and posting reflects Stadium Capital Partners’ ownership in ARC shares.

But, when I compare those numbers (# of shares owned) to the numbers currently reported on MSN.com finance, there’s a discrepancy, a difference, of 476,000 shares.In addition to that difference, MSN.com finance is reporting that the 5,848,036 shares are owned by Stadium Capital Management, and I don’t think that’s correct, for the Form 4 filings I’ve looked at say that Stadium Capital Partners is the “greater than 10% owner” that’s been reporting.

Could it be that SC’s second entity, Stadium Capital Management, owns 476,000 shares in addition to the 5,372,034 shares owned by Stadium Capital Partners?

If you go with the numbers reported on MSN.com finance, Stadium Capital now owns more shares than Micro Device, Inc.[Micro Device was the corporate name of Ford Graphics, and Micro Device is owned by Mohan and Suri.(I think Bill Thomas of Thomas Reprographics was formerly one of the owners of Micro Device, but I’m fairly sure that he cashed out of his shares quite some time ago, when ARC’s stock was trading well above where it’s been the past couple of years.)I’m pretty sure that Mohan also owns stock individually (and maybe in a trust), I’m pretty sure that Suri also owns ARC stock individually (and maybe in a trust), I’m pretty sure that Mohan and Suri still own ARC shares through their ownership of Dietrich Post Co, Inc., and I know that other ARC management team members (and Directors) own shares of ARC stock; all this meaning that, even if the Stadium Capital ARC-share-ownership numbers currently reported on MSN.com finance are correct, Stadium Capital still owns fewer ARC shares than all of the other ARC insiders own collectively. Not that any of that really matters, for I’m doubtful that Stadium Capital is interested in taking control of ARC.But, what do I know, anyway?

If someone knows anything that could clear up the picture – how much ARC stock does Stadium Capital (both SC entities, together) actually own, I’d appreciate you sharing that information with me (as well as the source of your information.)

Table 1.Stadium Capital Partners ownership of ARC shares; this comes from the last line of the table I posted yesterday (Dec 13th post), and the source of the information for that table is Stadium Capital’s Form 4 filings with the SEC:

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40+ year involvement in the reprographics business and industry. Former Chairman/CEO of Rowley-Scher Reprographics, Former Senior Vice President & Chief Business Strategist of National Graphic Imaging (NGI). Former Managing Director of the International Reprographics Association (IRgA). Active as a Management Consultant to firms in the reprographics business. (My consulting practice is called ProActive Management Programs LLC.)